Car-ticket, stamp, and card holder.



T. H. EDMONDS.

GAR TICKET, STAMP, AND CARD HOLDER.

APPLIGATION FILED JULYS, 1913.

1,089, 1 17., Patented Mar. 3, 1914.

COLUMBIA PLANOGRAPH CO WASHlNCITON. D. c.

THOMAS H. EDMONIDS, OF WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

CAR-TICKET, STAMP, AND CARD HOLDER.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed July 3, 1913.

Patented Mar. 3;, 1914. Serial no. 777,196.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Trroniis H. EDMONDS, a citizen of the United States,residing at Washington, in the District of Columbia, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Car-Ticket, Stamp, and CardHolders, of which the following is a spoolfication.

This invention relates to a case or holder for coupon tickets, stamps orcards, and is adapted more particularly for coupon tickets or sheets ofstamps having lines of perforations or indentations for detaching onefrom another.

The principal object of my invention is to provide a neat and convenientcase or holder for keeping coupon tickets, sheets of stamps, etc. cleanand for permitting a single coupon or stamp to be easily projected fromthe pocket and detached from the ticket or strip, or sheet, as the casemay be.

Another object is to provide a device of the above stated character ofsimple and inexpensive construction, which will be very convenient andeffective in use.

The case or holder may be made long for holding a single strip of coupontickets or stamps, or short with a partition, forming two pockets, fortwo strips, one on each side of the partition, and T have illustratedboth forms in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 represents afront elevation of a case or holder having an auxiliary pocket for atransfer. Fig. 2 represents a similar view of a case without a pocket.Fig. 3 represents a transverse section on line 33, Fig. 1. Fig. 4trepresents a transverse section on line 4-4, Fig. 2. Fig. 5 representsan elevation of a modified and preferred form of the case. Fig. 6represents a transverse section thereof on line 6-6, of Fig. 5. Fig. '7represents a longitudinal section thereof on line 'l'7, of Fig. 5.

The case A, Figs. 1 to at inclusive, may be made of thin sheet aluminum,celluloid, vulcanized fiber, or other suitable material, and is madelong and wide enough to hold a single strip of six car tickets, such asused in Washington, D. G, and the edges may be joined by solder, or byfolding the material on itself in a well-known manner, to form a thinpocket or receptacle (4 and an opening a at one end. In each side orface of the case is made an elongated slot 5, Op posite one another andsufficiently wide to admit a. thumb and finger, as indicated in Figs. 1and 3, for sliding the ticket out or in. The slots are made long enoughto eX pose and give access to all the coupons, as shown.

I preferably apply to one side of the case, near its upper open end, aflanged concave plate to form an auxiliary pocket C, adapted to receivea transfer slip, and such pocket is open at its upper end or may be openalong one edge. The coupon-ticket (Z, scored as indicated by dottedlines, is slid into the main pocket a, filling the same. This pocket ismade a little wider than the strip of tickets, so as to permit it, or asingle coupon to be freely slid outward or inward. The case will be madelarger or smaller, as required, to receive different size coupontickets.

Referring now to Figs. 5, (S and 7, showing a modification:llhe case Ais made double and contains two flat pockets to, a, separated by alongitudinal partition f, and is composed of a complete case 71., and aseparate back plate 6 having longitudinal flanges c, e, which are foldedover the edges of the case it onto the front face thereof, as shown in Figs. 5 and 6. The case it is formed with a front plate containing afinger slot Z) and a back partition plate f, having at one edge alongitudinal flange f turned over on the free edge of the front plate,as shown at the lower edge of Fig. 6. One of the flanges c of the backplate 6 will be folded upon the flange f. The back plate f of case 7Lforms the partition between the two pockets, and has two end flanges g,9, one of which, 9 is folded over the front of case It, as shown inFigs. 5 and 7, to close that end of pocket (4 in case it, while theother flange 9 is folded back over the separate back plate 6 to closeone end of the pocket a between partition plate f and said back plate(I. The two pockets are thus open at opposite ends as indicated at a, a,Fig. 7, and each has in its outer face a longitudinal thumb and fingerslot, as Z) in case 71., and Z) in back plate 6, for simultaneouslysliding tickets in opposite directions in the pockets. The slots 6, bare substantially opposite each other. This form of the case or holderis convenient on account of being shorter than that shown in F igs. land 2, and has the advantage of two adjacent pockets, so that thetickets of two different car lines may be held therein. The details ofconstruction of this form of case may be varied, so long as alongitudinal partition and two adjacent pockets are provided, and suchVariations are within the spirit and scope of my invention.

The operation of my ticket-holder is very simple and can be performed bythe pressure and thrust of a thumb and finger in the opposite slots 7),6 upon the ticket, or sheet of stamps, so as to project one coupon orstamp out through end opening a up to a scored or perforated line, whensuch coupon or stamp may be bent over the edgeof the case and then tornoff. In the double-pocket case shown in Fig. 5 the ticket in eitherpocket may be pushed outward or inward by the simple pressure and thrustof a thumb or finger and the coupon then bent over the edge of the caseand torn off at the scored line. A transfer slip may be inserted in theauxiliary pocket C and safely kept till required so as to prevent lossof the same. The straight thin edges of the flat pocket at the endopenings permit a coupon of a ticket to be bent over and torn off.

Having described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure byLetters Patent, is

l. A ticket-holder, consisting of a fiat case having two outer faceplates provided each with a longitudinal slot, and a longitudinal fiatpartition plate having end flanges bent over in opposite directions at.each end and lapped upon the outer face plates, thereby forming twopockets open at opposite ends, said slots permit-ting tickets in thepockets to be slid out simultaneously by the thrustof a thumb andfinger, substantially as described.

2. A ticket-holder composed of a flat complete case having a front plateprovided with a longitudinal slot, and a back plate provided with endflanges, a separate back plate provided with a longitudinal slot andlongitudinal side flanges turned over on the front of the complete case,said end flanges being turned over in opposite directions, one forwardon the front of the complete case, and the other backward on theseparate back plate thereby forming two pockets open at opposite ends,substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I afiiX my signature in presence of two witnesses.

THOMAS H. EDMONDS.

Witnesses NELSON L. TOWNSEND, CHARLES V. BROWN.

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